{"id":3732,"date":"2013-07-25T16:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T12:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cs-cart.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:08:26","slug":"dive-into-cs-cart-4-customization-themes-presets-and-layouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/dive-into-cs-cart-4-customization-themes-presets-and-layouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the recent CS\u00ad-Cart 4 Final, we&#8217;ve introduced many new features and improvements in this version, including a new way to customize the look and feel of your store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this post, I&#8217;d like to give you a brief overview of our new approach to storefront appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id='themes-and-presets'  id=\"boomdevs_1\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Themes and Presets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In CS-\u00adCart 4, you can easily change the appearance of your storefront by picking a <strong>theme<\/strong> and, if necessary, customizing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selecting a theme is very easy under <strong>Design \u2192 Themes<\/strong> in your admin panel; you may have seen similar interfaces in other popular CMS, like WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mldi5dmmdvnt.i.optimole.com\/cb:sOwt.3b410\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/themes_scr_new.png\"><img data-opt-id=716335615  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mldi5dmmdvnt.i.optimole.com\/cb:sOwt.3b410\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized_themes_scr_new.png\" alt=\"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts - CS-Cart Blog\" title=\"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the right side of this page, you will see your active <em>theme<\/em>, <em>preset<\/em>, and <em>layout<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, from this page, you can go directly to the built\u00ad-in template editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that your themes are highly customizable: click on the <strong>Customize theme<\/strong> button to modify your store favicon, backgrounds, colors, fonts, and more in real time via the built\u00ad-in WYSIWYG Theme editor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-opt-id=855441751  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mldi5dmmdvnt.i.optimole.com\/cb:sOwt.3b410\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized_image02.png\" alt=\"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts: photo 2 - CS-Cart Blog\" title=\"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts: photo 2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Theme modifications can be saved to <strong>presets<\/strong>. A preset holds all your modifications and can be re\u00adused in the future. The default CS\u00ad-Cart theme has three presets available out of the box: <strong>Satori<\/strong> (default,) <strong>Ocean<\/strong>, and <strong>Wooden<\/strong>; you are free to modify them and create your own presets based on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-opt-id=1675316476  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mldi5dmmdvnt.i.optimole.com\/cb:sOwt.3b410\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized_image00.png\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts: photo 3 - CS-Cart Blog\" title=\"Dive into CS-Cart 4 Customization: Themes, Presets, and Layouts: photo 3\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few clicks on the Install themes tab (under Design \u2192 Themes in the admin panel) is all it takes to install a new theme in the admin panel. Currently, you must manually place a new theme in the var\/themes_repository directory to make it installable, but we plan to allow installation of new themes directly from the marketplace when it&#8217;s created (read more about our <a title=\"CS-Cart Future Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/4-and-beyond-a-brief-overview-of-the-cs-cart-roadmap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roadmap<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CS\u00ad-Cart 4.0.1 is shipped with a single highly customizable theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id='layouts'  id=\"boomdevs_2\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Layouts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As with CS\u00ad-Cart 3, in CS-\u00adCart 4 you can arrange block placement for different store locations with simple drag &amp; drop, under <strong>Design \u2192 Layouts<\/strong>. In the new version, layouts can be named, saved for future reuse, and easily changed similarly to theme presets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The widget mode (planned for release in CS-\u00adCart 4.0.2) will rely heavily on layouts. If you think about it, a widget is just a special layout that fits a particular web page. We&#8217;ll be announcing this feature later and we&#8217;ll explain how you can use this feature to build CS\u00ad-Cart inside a Facebook page, a WordPress blog, or any other page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll be happy to answer any questions you might have right here in the comment area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more about<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/best-cs-cart-themes\/\" title=\"\">Best CS-Cart Themes for Your Online Store in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned to CS-\u00adCart on <a title=\"CS-Cart on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cscart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> and <a title=\"CS-Cart on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/cscart.official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPD: CS-Cart 4 customization is also explained in our new video tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good day! 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